SALE!

Black Friday (Nov. 28) through Cyber Monday (Dec. 1) I am offering 50% off all of my original paintings through my on-line store - http://www.artbynorm.etsy.com/ Yes, that is half price for an original painting. That's practically cheaper than ebay. Actually, that is cheaper than ebay, because there are no Norm's listed on ebay (at least by me). Which means you would have to go through Christie's if you were looking for an auction site, and we all know Christie's is not selling anything this cheap (and by that I mean the price, not the quality of the artwork).

Help support independent artisans this holiday season! Give the gift of art - especially art that will make someone smile !

If there is a painting that you've seen elsewhere, but you don't see it in my shop, send me a message - if it is still available I will sell it to you for 1/2 price during the sale time.

Enough said, start shopping - the economy needs you right now! :)

P.S. Alot of my other friends are having sales this weekend too - you can find out more by clicking here

The Handmade Arts Show

I'll be there - along with 30 other local Seattle artisans selling our wares. Oh, on Sunday 10/12 from 10-4 that is!

If yo uare in the Seattle area, it is worth checking out. The 1st 50 people through the door get swag bags from the vendors. There will be a backe sale benifiting VSA of WA. And of course shopping, lots of shopping.

For a sneak peak at the vendors who will be there, click here

St. Edwards State Park is in Kenmore, WA (aka Juanita / Kirkland). It is a great state park, in the Seattle metropolitan area (yea, you don't even have to drive 60 miles looking at nothing but trees to get there). We will be in the historical Seminary Building which was just renovated. For directions and/or more details about the park click here. AND, when you are done shopping, you can go for a hike on one of the trails in the park, or play on the awesome playground!

Oh, and just as a disclaimer - Norm will be there but only as greeting cards. Heidi will also be selling reclaimed cashmere scarves & hats.

etsyRAIN.com at Mill Creek Festival

Here's a peek at some of my friends that will be at the festival with me, my new tent, my new credit card machine, my new Greeting Cards (woohoo - professionally printed), and other new stuff like magnets, soldered microscope slide ornaments, and...

Totes2Go: totally cool re-usable fabric shopping bags that fold up into a nice neat little pouch when not in use.

World of Whimm: totally cool kids costumes!

NueToMe: recycled childrens clothing (like little girls t-shirt dresses)

RozsSaxSeattle: very cute handmade fashion accessories

Woven Chains: fantastic chain maille jewelry (you've gotta see her keychains, betcha won't be able to put it down!)

Made@Home: Homemade play dough with the coolest colors

FloatingPalace: very cute linoluem block print cards

Oh yea, park at the park and ride and ride the shuttle in - saves the hassle of trying to find non-existent parking at the fair.

Etsy Front Page!

One of the most exciting things about selling on etsy is making it to the "front page" - i.e. the home page, or 1st page that everyone sees when they go to http://www.etsy.com/.

My friend Kelly at TomatoTomato saved the screen shot of Norm's 5 minutes of fame yesterday. I snooped around a bit to find out who put the collection together that go showcased ont he front page - it was leavesofglass- and the treasury was titled "Big Balls" - I'm honored that Norm fell into that category!

And one more shout-out - ok, two. Artsy was also on the front page - love her sculptures, in fact I traded her an old brownie camera for an 8x10 of the "Espresso Family". And I just discovered LemonBall - he handmakes baseballs - how cool is that!

IF: Homage

...in the Museum of Noses...

Homage to a master - I started a "series" of homages to masters - you can find them all at http://www.artbynorm.com/ in the gallery under masters. This is by far my favorite - and so are Magritte and Dali...

Swimmy, Etsy, and a lot of orange fish

So, Etsy's founder, Rob read the story of Swimmy by Leo Leoni to describe what Etsy is all about. It's actually a wonderful children's story about how 1 little (black) fish with a "vision" helped all the other little (orange) fish band together to scare off the big bully fish (i.e. black fish = etsy, orange fish = small entrepeneurs, big fish = corporations). Anyway, EtsyRain, the Seattle Team of Etsy sellers is banding together and creating a bunch of orange fish to send to Rob for a diorama. This is my contribution.

buddies in Rhode Island

so we (as in EtsyRain, the Seattle group of Etsy sellers) teamed up with Rhode Island Arts Street team to help promote each other. Funny that we are at the far reaches of the continent - you don't get much further east or west - and yet we are all very similar in our talent for creating new and wonderful treasures! Here are a few artists that caught my eye (it's kinda making me want to go to RI to one of their craft fairs...)

electronrings makes wonrderful felted goodies including rings, lariats, and this bellydancing belt!

spiderbite makes that rockin' cool journals -

julibcreative painted these wonderful "lollipop" trees - I LOVE lollipop trees. My art teacher in the 3rd grade was so impressed by my ability to draw trees with the V branches that she told me only little kids drew lollipop trees. Well here's to all the little kids at heart! (you'll note that I've reverted back to my little kidness too!)

and lastly, but definitely not leastly, a woman who takes skelton keys (another thing near and dear to my heart) and creates beautiful glass beads right onto the key! How cool is that? Oh her shop name is The Venerable Bead

Moo Mini Cards part deux!

They just arrived, the 1st re-order... gotta love these little business cards!

I Spy with my little eye...

Norm amongst some talented artists on Storque!

Storque Article - and I'm in it!

Check it out : click here

a little press can't be a bad thing, huh?

Norm's donating to the Amer. Cancer Society

About 1 1/2 years ago I was riding an emotional rollercoaster after finding out yet another friend had cancer. There was alot of cancer circling around me, amongst family & friends (let's just say I needed more than 1 hand to count everyone diagnosed). It was very scary and upsetting, death was a common topic of discussion. And this is when Norm was born.

Everyone reads something different into my paintings. Norm has a special place for me - he's become a member of the family (mostly because I do most of my work in the dining room, so we are surrounded by him in our house).

So I have decided to give something back to the American Cancer Society. 20% of the profits from my felted Norm dolls will be donated to the ACS. The dolls can be purchased in my shop at www.artbynorm.etsy.com They are 2 1/2" tall and made of wool.

I'm in the Holiday Sampler

Woo - hoo! If you love grab bag ideas as much as I do, you'll love this! The Sampler is a sampling of samples and materials sent in each month by independent crafters, artists, shops, zines and record labels who run web-based businesses. You get a sneak peak of what might be in the "box" by checking out their website: The Sampler.

I contributed 100 signed & numbered limited edition ACEO's (these are a limited run of 100 and I contributed the whole set to The Sampler - so if you want one, you gotta buy a Sampler). Woo-hoo - it's tons of fun. I'm going to contribute to the next Sampler also as a group with other EtsyRain artists.

Norm & the Jacobobs

Norm's got some new friends - Squeed and Jasper!

They just arrived from KitLane, an etsy seller and they are wonderful.

Check out her shop, she does really great work - felted critters and some awesome holdiay cards titled "A View From the Manger"!

EtsyRain Mystery Grab Bags are here!

Etsy Rain is the Seattle Street Team of artists & craftspeople that sell their wares on Etsy.com Just in time for the holidays, we all teamed up and put together grab bags. Each grab bag has $50 worth of stuff from 5 sellers - but you pay only $25! What a deal! Here are the sellers who are participating in the kids/baby's grab bags:

glitzconcepts.etsy.com
sycamorebaby.etsy.com
lasesigns.etsy.com
tomatotomato.etsy.com
artbynorm.etsy.com (me)

and these sellers are in the "general" grab bags:

kneek.etsy.com

imakecutestuff.etsy.com

wiretree.etsy.com

scarywhitegirl.etsy.com

baublesbyhand.etsy.com

kimberlyatstir.etsy.com

livewire.etsy.com

wovenchains.etsy.com

emmakat.etsy.com

sweetpeacardsgifts.etsy.com

How much would it be to open up a box of stuff that you got from some very creative people in Seattle? Here is my listing for a kids grab bag: MYSTERY GRAB BAG Now get shopping!

First Thurs. Artwalk in Pioneer Square! Nov. 1, 2007

The Seattle Etsy Street Team (from here on out known as EtsyRain) is having an Art Sale during the First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square.


For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Pioneer Square Artwalk, the first Thursday of every month galleries in the hip & artsy Pioneer Square area of downtown Seattle stay open late, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has free admission, and many artists hold their show openings on that night.


It's a lot of fun, a lot of walking, and a lot of checking out great art!

We'll be there until about 10-ish, right around the corner from Al Boccalino and the Pioneer Square Saloon, just under the viaduct!

http://www.stirboutique.com/kick_off_the_holidays.html

Stop by and say Hi!

And, I'm "in the news"!

check this out - it's all about me :) http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/360236/etsy_seller_artbynorm_offers_brilliantly.html?image=137837

you can also check it out on Dawn's blogspot - http://www.shopetsy.blogspot.com/

thanks Dawn, I'm flattered!